# mure
## English
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English muren, from Middle French murer, from Old French murer (“to close by a wall”), from Late Latin mūrō, mūrāre, from Latin mūrus (“wall”). Related to German Mauer (“wall”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mjʊə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

### Noun

mure (plural mures)
* (obsolete) wall
** c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], line 2870:Th' incessant care and labour of his mind Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in
* (obsolete) husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh

### Adjective

mure (not comparable)
* (obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)

### Verb

mure (third-person singular simple present mures, present participle muring, simple past and past participle mured)
* (obsolete) to wall in or fortify
* (archaic) To enclose or imprison within walls.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Therewith he mured up his mouth along, And therein shut up his blasphemous tong
** a. 1765, Bible, Joshua 10 (heading)
    The five kings are mured in a cave.

### References

* Meaning "Husks of fruit": 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. From Wright's Dialect Dict.

### Anagrams

* Reum, Meru

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmuːrə/, [ˈmuːɐ]
* Homophone: murer

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse múra, derived from the noun. Compare German mauern.

#### Verb

mure (imperative mur, infinitive at mure, present tense murer, past tense murede, perfect tense er/har muret)
* to build a wall, to lay bricks

##### Derived terms

* murer
* muret
* mure inde

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

mure c
* indefinite plural of mur

## Estonian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *murëh.

### Noun

mure (genitive mure, partitive muret)
* sorrow, woe, grief
* care, concern
* anxiety, distress

#### Derived terms

* muretsema

### Further reading

* “mure”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
* “mure”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
* mure in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /myʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: mur, mûr, murs, mûrs, mûre, mures, mûres, murent

### Verb

mure
* inflection of murer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Adjective

mure
* Alternative spelling of mûre

### Anagrams

* muer

## Galician
### Verb

mure
* inflection of murar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Interlingua
### Noun

mure (plural mures)
* mouse
    Synonym: mus

## Japanese
### Romanization

mure
* Rōmaji transcription of むれ

## Kari'na
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *mɨjere; compare Trió mïjere, Wayana mujele, Pemon murei.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [muːɺ̢e]

### Noun

mure (possessed murery)
* bench, stool

### References

* Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 321
* Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “mure”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 307; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 299

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmuː.re/, [ˈmuːrɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmu.re/, [ˈmuːre]

### Noun

mūre
* ablative singular of mūs
* vocative singular of mūrus

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* meur, mewre, moyre

### Etymology

From Old French meur, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mature.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miu̯r/

### Adjective

mure
* grave, serious, modest
* (rare) mature, ripe

#### Related terms

* demure

#### References

* “mūre, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Middle High German
### Alternative forms

* miure, mūr, miur

### Etymology

From Old High German mūra, from Proto-West Germanic *mūrā, borrowed from Latin mūrus, from Proto-Italic *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈmuːrə/

### Noun

mūre f
* wall

#### Descendants

* Alemannic German: Muur
* Central Franconian: Mouer (Moselle)
** Hunsrik: Mauer
** Luxembourgish: Mauer
* German: Mauer
* Rhine Franconian: Mauer, Muur
** Frankfurterisch: [mauæ̆]
* Yiddish: מויער (moyer)
* → Polish: mur (see there for further descendants)

### References

* Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “MÛRE”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
* "mūre" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

## Middle Low German
### Alternative forms

* mur, mür

### Etymology

From Old Saxon mūra, from Latin mūrus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /muːrə/, /myːrə/

### Noun

mûre or mü̂re f
* wall

#### Usage notes

The form with /yː/ and the form with /uː/ existed next to each other.

#### Descendants

* Dutch Low Saxon: mure
* → Estonian: müür

### References

* "mûre" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse múra.

#### Verb

mure (present tense murer, past tense mura or murte, supine and past participle mura or murt)
* to mason

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse mura, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ.

#### Noun

mure f or m (definite singular mura or muren, indefinite plural murer, definite plural murene)
* (botany) any plant of the potentilla family
    Synonym: potentilla

### References

* “mure” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse múra.

#### Alternative forms

* mura (a-infinitive)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²mʉː.rə/

#### Verb

mure (present tense murar, past tense mura, past participle mura, passive infinitive murast, present participle murande, imperative mure/mur)
* to mason

##### Derived terms

* murar

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse mura, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ. Akin to German Möhre (“carrot”).

#### Noun

mure f (definite singular mura, indefinite plural murer, definite plural murene)
* (botany) any plant of the potentilla family
    Synonym: potentilla

### References

* “mure” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmu.ɾi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmu.ɾi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmu.ɾe/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmu.ɾɨ/
* Hyphenation: mu‧re

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese mur, from Latin mūrem, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s. Cognate with Spanish mur and Romansh mieur.

#### Alternative forms

* muro

#### Noun

mure m (plural mures)
* (archaic, dialectal) mouse
    Synonym: rato

##### Derived terms

* murar

##### Related terms

* morcego
* murganho
* musaranho
* músculo

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

mure
* inflection of murar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

mure
* inflection of murar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative